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[TintoConCasera]

The Little Mermaid was originally written in 1836 when black people were still considered property in some parts of the world. There is no need to adhere to that original portrayal unless the race of the character is a key point of who they are and what they represent.

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I think I don't understand, and I hope you don't mean what I think you mean.

Ariel being white and ginger is not an essential part of her character. It does not affect who she is or what she stands for as a character. At no point does her skin color play a key part of her story or her character arc.

Her skin or hair color doesn't matter all, that's right. But if that's the case... Then why bother changing it? I'll tell you why: virtue signaling and marketing.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Then why bother changing it? I'll tell you why: virtue signaling and marketing.

Agree to disagree I guess because I don't see it that way at all.

 

[jason10mm]

You argued that changing the race of a black character who is the king of a country in Africa is no big deal despite the obvious fact that it is a key part of his character. A character whose origin story and drive is tied directly to him and his people being black. He is also the king of a black African Kingdom that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries and you ignorantly argue that they could easily be changed to "Egyptian" or "Algerian" and then you tried to call me a "racist" for calling out how completely ignorant that argument is.

Legit curious, how far back do you think the Egyptians go? 'Cause hate to break it to you, they go back MILLENNIA, Africa being a CONTINENT comprised exclusively of Sub-Saharan black peoples hasn't been the case since the diaspora like 65,000 years ago.

And if Wakanda has "being isolated for CENTURIES" as a defining characteristic, then they don't really represent Africa, just one little slice of it and that could easily be a refugee group of Carthaginians that fled the Romans.

You guys sound like Nick Cannon and his "melanin is power" nonsense. Black Panther is the person currently juicing on the flower. That's it. That's the source of his power, the link to ancestors, cat fetish, all of it. Everything else is just origin story fantasy bullshit icing. That's some of you guys get SUPER DEFENSIVE about it while totally dismissing other folks just shows how hypocritical this entire movement really is and should give you some empathy for why some folks dig in on certain things, JUST LIKE YOU DO.

 

[RoboFu]

The arguments are all over the place. Lol

I am going categorically create some basic opinion statements as this is one of those situations that there is no simple one line answer.


- the original ancient stories don’t matter here so just drop them. This is about the original popular Disney movies vs the remakes.

- yes it matters alot to real fans if they drastically change the characters and plot.

- yes Disney did this for virtue signaling points. It’s blatantly obvious.

- no it doesn’t affect the original movies and won’t replace those movies.

- yes it will bring a lot of joy and a good role model to a lot of little girls.

- yes this will also confuse a lot children as well and cause a negative segregation between the different Ariels.

- more than likely … just like every Disney remake so far.. no one will care about this movie after a year. Disney will continue to use the original character as the main ip for merchandise and licensing.

 

[GymWolf]

Dude look through this page and read the posts that I've already made explaining why the argument of black panther versus The Little mermaid is completely and utterly ridiculous.


If you are going to comment on the thread the least you can do is read the page of the thread that you are posting in at bare minimum lol


Also just for the record you trying to flippantly say that the people of the isolated African country of Wakanda don't need to be black might be the funniest fucking thing that I've read on this forum in weeks. Fucking cackling basically while I'm riding to work.

The only thing i readed in this topic are people making excuses and trying to justify this swap-a-race shit, so yeah we are ALL cackling, believe me.